Name: Zhang Hai-Tao

Professor in School of Automation

Phone: 86-27-87558443

Email: zht@hust.edu.cn

Academic Areas: Automatic Control

Research Interest

Multi-robot cooperative control; model predictive control; nano-manufacturing control

Education

Doctor--Control Science and Engineering--University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei--2005

Master--Control Science and Engineering--University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei--2002

Bachelor--Control Science and Engineering--University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei--2000

Oversea Study and Visit

Post Doctoral,University of Cambridge,U.K.,2007-01-01-2007-12-31

Academic Memberships

Senior Member,IEEE,IEEE,2013-08-01.

Honours and Awards

Young Talents Supporting Program Project, Excellent Youth Project of NNSFC,the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC; National Natural Scientifc Foundation of China,2013

Honours and Awards

[1] 1.H.-T. Zhang *, C. Zhai and Z.Chen,A general alignment repulsion algorithm for flocking of multi-agent systems,IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56, no.2, pp. 430-435, 2011. 2.M.-C. Fan, Z. Chen and H.-T. Zhang*, Semi-Global Consensus of Nonlinear Second-order Multi-Agent Systems with Measurement Output Feedback,IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 3313-3322, 2014. 3.Z. Chen and H.-T. Zhang *,No-beacon collective circular motion of jointly connected multi-agents,Automatica-Regular paper, vol. 47, pp. 1929-1937, 2011 4.Z. Chen and H.-T. Zhang *,A remark on collective circular motion of heterogeneous multi-agents,Automatica, vol. 49, pp. 1236-1241, 2013 5.H.-T. Zhang *, Z. Chen, T. Vicsek, G. Feng, L Sun, R. Su and T. Zhou,Route-dependent switch between hierarchical and egalitarian strategies in pigeon flocks,Scientific Reports,vol.4, pp. 5805, 2014. 6.H.-T. Zhang, M. Z. Q. Chen and G.-B. Stan, Fast consensus via predictive pinning control, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I–Regular paper, vol.58, no.9, pp. 2247-2258, 2011 7.H.-T. Zhang, Z. Cheng, G. Chen and C. Li, Model predictive flocking control for second-order multi-agent systems with input constraints, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular paper, 62 (6), 1599-1606,2015 8.Z. Cheng , H.-T. Zhang *, M.-C. Fan, and G. Chen. Distributed consensus of multi-agent systems with input constraints: a model predictive control approach. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular papers, 62(3): 825-834. 2015 9.H.-T. Zhang and Z. Chen, Consensus acceleration in a class of predictive networks,IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, vol. 25, no. 10, pp. 1921-1927, 2014. 10.H.-T. Zhang, Z. Chen, L. Yan and W. Yu, Application of collective circular motion control to multi-robot systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 21, no.4, pp. 1416-1422, 2013. 11. H.-T. Zhang, Z. Chen, and M. Fan, Collaborative control of multi-vehicle systems in diverse motion patterns, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI 10.1109/TCST.2015.2487864 12.Z. Chen, H.-T. Zhang *, M.-C. Fan, D. Wang and D. Li, Algorithms and experiments on flocking of multi-agents in a bounded space, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 22, no.4, pp. 1544-1549, 2014. 13.W.-J. He, H.-T. Zhang *, Z. Chen, B. Chu, K. Cao, B. Shan and R. Chen*,Generalized Predictive Control of Temperature on an Atomic Layer Deposition Reactor,IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2015.2404898. 14.H.-T. Zhang, Z. Chen, P. Chen, X. Zhang and H. Ding, Saturated Output Regulation Approach for Active Virbration Control of Thin-walled Flexible Workpieces with Voice Coil Actuators, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics-Regular paper, DOI 10.1109/TMECH.2015.2440425. 15.Z. Chen and H.-T. Zhang*, Analysis of joint connectivity condition for multi-agents with boundary constraints, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics-Regular paper, vol. 43, no.2, pp. 437-444, 2013 16.Z. Chen, M.-C. Fan and H.-T. Zhang*, How much control is enough for network connectivity preservation and collision avoidance, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics-Regular paper, vol.45, no.8, pp.1647-1656, 2015. 17.W.-J. He, H.-T. Zhang*, Z. Chen, B. Chu, K. Cao, B. Shan and R. Chen*, Temperature Control for Nano-Scale Films by Spatially-Separated Atomic Layer Deposition based on Generalized Predictive Control, IEEE Trans. Nanotechnology-Regular paper, DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2015.2471298. 18.H.-T. Zhang, M. Z. Q. Chen, G.-B. Stan, T. Zhou and J. M. Maciejowski, Collective behavior coordination with predictive mechanisms, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine-Regular paper vol. 8, no.3, pp. 67-85, 2008. 19.M. C. Fan, H.-T. Zhang* and Z. Lin, Distributed Semi-global Consensus with Relative Output Feedback and Input Saturation under Directed Switching Networks, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 62. No.8, 796-800, 2015.